| Rank |
Text |
Best WPM |
Overall Difficulty |
Relative Speed |
Text Length |
Races |
Average WPM |
Last race |
| 1. |
In the casino, the cardinal rule is to keep them playing and... |
72.29 |
1.1018 |
0.1944 |
220 |
1 |
72.29 |
2012-11-14 |
| 2. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, the walkin... |
69.37 |
1.0574 |
0.2181 |
205 |
1 |
69.37 |
2013-04-11 |
| 3. |
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, t... |
67.85 |
1.0767 |
0.1406 |
212 |
1 |
67.85 |
2012-10-05 |
| 4. |
The most precious treasures we have in life are the images w... |
65.25 |
1.0596 |
0.1111 |
239 |
1 |
65.25 |
2012-10-20 |
| 5. |
We all know people who are very bright but who do not always... |
64.82 |
1.0385 |
0.1245 |
230 |
1 |
64.82 |
2012-11-14 |
| 6. |
The example of painting can teach us not only how to manage ... |
64.42 |
1.0787 |
0.0775 |
237 |
1 |
64.42 |
2012-10-05 |
| 7. |
I hope that whoever you are, you escape this place. I hope t... |
64.27 |
1.0885 |
0.0661 |
315 |
1 |
64.27 |
2012-10-20 |
| 8. |
With the coming of Dean Moriarty began the part of my life y... |
63.87 |
1.0189 |
0.1293 |
337 |
1 |
63.87 |
2012-10-24 |
| 9. |
A computer needs a manager to administer its operations, jus... |
63.87 |
1.0060 |
0.1385 |
171 |
1 |
63.87 |
2012-10-20 |
| 10. |
Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, ra... |
63.38 |
1.0498 |
0.0851 |
180 |
1 |
63.38 |
2013-04-11 |
| 11. |
However we choose to feed ourselves, we eat by the grace of ... |
62.47 |
0.9986 |
0.1196 |
162 |
1 |
62.47 |
2012-10-05 |
| 12. |
And when he rode past I seen he was carryin' fire in a horn ... |
62.14 |
1.0602 |
0.0560 |
389 |
1 |
62.14 |
2012-10-05 |
| 13. |
The sooner your kids appreciate the value of work, the more ... |
61.93 |
1.0669 |
0.0780 |
286 |
1 |
61.93 |
2012-10-05 |
| 14. |
Like painting, most software is intended for a human audienc... |
61.81 |
0.9572 |
0.1518 |
201 |
2 |
59.36 |
2012-10-05 |
| 15. |
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly... |
61.75 |
1.0314 |
0.0749 |
172 |
1 |
61.75 |
2012-10-05 |
| 16. |
What should have been swift revenge turned into an all out w... |
61.66 |
0.9936 |
0.1135 |
311 |
2 |
55.74 |
2012-10-05 |
| 17. |
Look and think as far ahead as possible. Often, a driver's n... |
61.57 |
1.0555 |
0.0761 |
323 |
1 |
61.57 |
2012-10-07 |
| 18. |
Picking up the pieces, half alive in a nine 'til five, vacan... |
61.46 |
0.9855 |
0.1509 |
258 |
1 |
61.46 |
2013-04-11 |
| 19. |
It's a blue savanna song: somewhere cross the desert, someti... |
61.13 |
1.0211 |
0.1085 |
213 |
1 |
61.13 |
2012-10-05 |
| 20. |
For it is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is ... |
61.09 |
1.0389 |
0.0578 |
318 |
1 |
61.09 |
2012-10-05 |
| 21. |
We may climb into the thin and cold realm of pure geometry a... |
61.07 |
0.9871 |
0.1480 |
209 |
2 |
56.13 |
2012-10-05 |
| 22. |
There is no physical separation after the slicing, so that e... |
61.01 |
1.0173 |
0.1225 |
268 |
1 |
61.01 |
2013-04-11 |
| 23. |
As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; f... |
60.83 |
1.0613 |
0.0308 |
266 |
1 |
60.83 |
2012-10-24 |
| 24. |
My name is Turkish. Funny name for an Englishman, I know. My... |
60.45 |
1.0131 |
0.0698 |
225 |
1 |
60.45 |
2012-10-05 |
| 25. |
We turn away to face the cold, enduring chill, as the day be... |
60.43 |
1.0454 |
0.0397 |
255 |
1 |
60.43 |
2012-10-24 |
| 26. |
Although the United Nations does not have the power to enfor... |
60.36 |
1.0284 |
0.0976 |
282 |
1 |
60.36 |
2013-04-11 |
| 27. |
Historically, most wines contained less than 14 percent alco... |
60.20 |
0.9925 |
0.1253 |
247 |
1 |
60.20 |
2012-10-05 |
| 28. |
Come sail your ships around me and burn your bridges down. W... |
60.10 |
0.9187 |
0.1543 |
118 |
1 |
60.10 |
2012-10-05 |
| 29. |
Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the... |
59.45 |
0.8935 |
0.1781 |
328 |
2 |
59.17 |
2012-10-24 |
| 30. |
Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when noth... |
59.33 |
1.0529 |
0.0118 |
351 |
1 |
59.33 |
2012-10-05 |
| 31. |
We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial e... |
59.29 |
0.9485 |
0.1160 |
236 |
3 |
56.98 |
2013-04-11 |
| 32. |
Jay made up for the lack of glamour in his assignment by hav... |
59.18 |
1.0154 |
0.0936 |
351 |
1 |
59.18 |
2012-10-20 |
| 33. |
In the capital of the Sunbelt South, the quiet revolution of... |
59.17 |
0.9098 |
0.1506 |
167 |
1 |
59.17 |
2012-10-05 |
| 34. |
The inner surface of the cell wall touches the cytoplasmic m... |
59.02 |
0.9072 |
0.1510 |
237 |
1 |
59.02 |
2012-10-05 |
| 35. |
When the light of life has gone, no change for the meter. Th... |
58.98 |
1.0725 |
0.0144 |
233 |
2 |
58.86 |
2012-10-20 |
| 36. |
In most cases, there is more to be gained by maximizing the ... |
58.63 |
1.0598 |
-0.0116 |
196 |
1 |
58.63 |
2012-10-05 |
| 37. |
A lot of people, especially this one psychoanalyst guy they ... |
58.62 |
0.9330 |
0.1219 |
360 |
1 |
58.62 |
2012-10-07 |
| 38. |
But the two men were not lonely at all. At home they were co... |
58.61 |
1.0523 |
-0.0024 |
256 |
1 |
58.61 |
2012-11-14 |
| 39. |
I'm telling it like it is. Get used to it or put this book d... |
58.51 |
0.9768 |
0.0746 |
387 |
1 |
58.51 |
2013-04-11 |
| 40. |
And I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because ... |
58.37 |
1.0165 |
0.0314 |
392 |
1 |
58.37 |
2012-11-14 |
| 41. |
A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. ... |
58.26 |
1.0387 |
0.0381 |
239 |
1 |
58.26 |
2012-10-20 |
| 42. |
When she returns to the forum page, her post is there. It is... |
57.98 |
1.0547 |
0.0236 |
257 |
1 |
57.98 |
2013-04-11 |
| 43. |
There's sometimes a buggy. How many drivers does a buggy hav... |
57.94 |
1.0251 |
0.0128 |
261 |
2 |
50.87 |
2013-04-11 |
| 44. |
Ezekiel twenty-five, seventeen: The path of the righteous ma... |
57.84 |
0.9464 |
0.0934 |
323 |
1 |
57.84 |
2012-10-05 |
| 45. |
Remembering you standing quiet in the rain as I ran to your ... |
57.76 |
1.0515 |
-0.0196 |
166 |
1 |
57.76 |
2012-10-05 |
| 46. |
Aztec rule was based upon a system of tribute and fear over ... |
57.68 |
0.9572 |
0.1181 |
376 |
1 |
57.68 |
2012-10-24 |
| 47. |
But no matter how effective the lesson was, I never really u... |
57.60 |
1.0943 |
-0.0285 |
206 |
1 |
57.60 |
2012-10-20 |
| 48. |
I'd been walking for hours and, as usual, I'd lost track of ... |
57.54 |
0.8971 |
0.1380 |
266 |
1 |
57.54 |
2012-10-24 |
| 49. |
Warmer water increases the moisture content of storms, and w... |
57.42 |
0.9776 |
0.0528 |
308 |
1 |
57.42 |
2012-10-05 |
| 50. |
It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes ... |
57.29 |
1.0297 |
-0.0029 |
249 |
1 |
57.29 |
2012-10-20 |
| 51. |
If we all go for the blonde and block each other, not a sing... |
57.04 |
1.0668 |
-0.0432 |
350 |
1 |
57.04 |
2012-10-05 |
| 52. |
I must nevertheless point out that our profession very close... |
57.00 |
0.9461 |
0.0760 |
276 |
2 |
56.96 |
2012-10-24 |
| 53. |
Trudging slowly over wet sand, back to the bench where your ... |
56.94 |
0.9710 |
0.0476 |
173 |
2 |
55.48 |
2012-10-20 |
| 54. |
After the grapes are crushed, yeasts (tiny one-celled organi... |
56.83 |
0.9673 |
0.0938 |
232 |
1 |
56.83 |
2012-10-05 |
| 55. |
Yet one fine day, in a fit of euphoria, after he had picked ... |
56.68 |
0.9758 |
0.0411 |
314 |
1 |
56.68 |
2012-10-24 |
| 56. |
The creation ends in South Georgia, at the very edge of the ... |
56.62 |
0.9997 |
0.0179 |
382 |
1 |
56.62 |
2012-11-14 |
| 57. |
Samatha is a state in which the mind is brought to rest, foc... |
56.39 |
1.0673 |
-0.0122 |
230 |
1 |
56.39 |
2012-10-20 |
| 58. |
Commas and periods always go inside quotation marks. Colons ... |
56.26 |
0.9897 |
0.0186 |
274 |
1 |
56.26 |
2012-10-05 |
| 59. |
You cannot entice a true thief, and thief by vocation, into ... |
56.00 |
0.8914 |
0.1137 |
366 |
1 |
56.00 |
2012-10-05 |
| 60. |
The basis of the Aztecs' success in creating a great state a... |
55.98 |
0.9908 |
0.0554 |
342 |
1 |
55.98 |
2012-11-14 |
| 61. |
But, pray how could that which I spoke so many years ago, an... |
55.71 |
0.9986 |
0.0007 |
283 |
1 |
55.71 |
2012-11-14 |
| 62. |
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece ... |
55.62 |
0.9635 |
0.0357 |
389 |
2 |
52.93 |
2012-10-05 |
| 63. |
And you know it's time to go, through the sleet and driving ... |
55.59 |
1.0487 |
-0.0545 |
231 |
1 |
55.59 |
2012-10-05 |
| 64. |
Often, we assume that a familiar situation will be but a rep... |
55.55 |
0.9636 |
0.0328 |
254 |
2 |
53.10 |
2012-10-05 |
| 65. |
At first we were silent, but finally we considered ourselves... |
55.52 |
0.9559 |
0.0406 |
195 |
1 |
55.52 |
2012-10-05 |
| 66. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered, to see how... |
55.39 |
1.0403 |
-0.0290 |
193 |
2 |
53.09 |
2012-10-05 |
| 67. |
Yet the web of thought has no such creases and is more like ... |
55.36 |
0.9786 |
0.0142 |
235 |
1 |
55.36 |
2012-10-20 |
| 68. |
She looked terrific. I said to myself, "Maybe she's going to... |
55.11 |
0.8022 |
0.1874 |
215 |
1 |
55.11 |
2012-10-05 |
| 69. |
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experie... |
55.01 |
1.0515 |
-0.0662 |
250 |
1 |
55.01 |
2012-10-05 |
| 70. |
I'd just like to point out that you were given every opportu... |
54.91 |
1.0068 |
-0.0206 |
358 |
1 |
54.91 |
2012-10-05 |
| 71. |
It was one of those days when it's a minute away from snowin... |
54.87 |
1.0389 |
-0.0542 |
340 |
1 |
54.87 |
2012-11-14 |
| 72. |
Stab a sorry heart with your favorite finger. Paint the whol... |
54.64 |
1.0270 |
-0.0113 |
255 |
1 |
54.64 |
2012-10-05 |
| 73. |
It turned out that the sweet-talking, tattoo-sporting pikey ... |
54.48 |
0.8722 |
0.1066 |
285 |
2 |
50.38 |
2012-10-20 |
| 74. |
Some have a positive vocation for breaking open safes: from ... |
54.45 |
0.9670 |
0.0500 |
307 |
1 |
54.45 |
2012-10-05 |
| 75. |
Ergonomics is a term that combines the Greek word ergon, mea... |
54.38 |
0.9005 |
0.0749 |
212 |
1 |
54.38 |
2012-11-14 |
| 76. |
I have quit three jobs and been fired from all the rest. Get... |
54.31 |
1.0516 |
-0.0776 |
281 |
1 |
54.31 |
2012-10-05 |
| 77. |
It may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agr... |
54.22 |
0.9529 |
0.0595 |
269 |
1 |
54.22 |
2012-10-05 |
| 78. |
Too often writers believe that they can emphasize words by p... |
54.21 |
1.0073 |
-0.0321 |
369 |
1 |
54.21 |
2012-10-20 |
| 79. |
And I don't believe in the existence of angels but looking a... |
54.09 |
1.0774 |
-0.0792 |
304 |
1 |
54.09 |
2012-11-14 |
| 80. |
Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me peg... |
54.07 |
1.0334 |
-0.0678 |
131 |
1 |
54.07 |
2012-10-05 |
| 81. |
The Orient was almost a European invention, and had been sin... |
53.98 |
0.9514 |
0.0166 |
237 |
1 |
53.98 |
2012-10-24 |
| 82. |
Data is by definition easy to copy. And the Internet makes c... |
53.80 |
0.9500 |
0.0163 |
362 |
1 |
53.80 |
2012-10-20 |
| 83. |
The term "barbarian" was created by the Greeks; it was origi... |
53.73 |
0.9509 |
0.0509 |
225 |
1 |
53.73 |
2012-10-05 |
| 84. |
She's got a smile that, it seems to me, reminds me of childh... |
53.67 |
1.0429 |
-0.0816 |
259 |
1 |
53.67 |
2012-10-05 |
| 85. |
I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was ... |
53.67 |
1.0053 |
-0.0439 |
232 |
1 |
53.67 |
2012-10-05 |
| 86. |
So what's in this for you? Should you rush out in search of ... |
53.60 |
1.0062 |
-0.0449 |
288 |
1 |
53.60 |
2012-10-20 |
| 87. |
I can already hear your tune calling me across the room. Whe... |
53.50 |
1.0630 |
-0.0746 |
397 |
1 |
53.50 |
2012-10-05 |
| 88. |
My entire life had been on a predictable trajectory dominate... |
53.41 |
0.8958 |
0.0642 |
322 |
1 |
53.41 |
2012-10-05 |
| 89. |
If I'm curt with you it's because time is a factor. I think ... |
53.36 |
1.0183 |
-0.0647 |
191 |
2 |
51.37 |
2012-10-05 |
| 90. |
In short order, Carter then proceeded to kill any chance he ... |
53.21 |
0.9234 |
0.0329 |
346 |
2 |
50.45 |
2012-10-20 |
| 91. |
Well, the way they make shows is, they make one show. That s... |
53.00 |
1.0534 |
-0.1030 |
357 |
1 |
53.00 |
2012-10-05 |
| 92. |
I've flown seven million miles. And I've been waiting on peo... |
52.77 |
0.8968 |
0.0478 |
186 |
1 |
52.77 |
2012-10-05 |
| 93. |
When you are typing on a typewriter, your input appears dire... |
52.56 |
1.0029 |
-0.0630 |
209 |
1 |
52.56 |
2012-10-05 |
| 94. |
There are men who possess a peculiarly strong visual memory,... |
52.41 |
0.9916 |
-0.0101 |
282 |
2 |
52.39 |
2012-10-24 |
| 95. |
I'm so glad you came, I'm so glad you remembered to see how ... |
52.25 |
0.9461 |
-0.0119 |
193 |
1 |
52.25 |
2013-04-11 |
| 96. |
Paper as we know it today was invented in China in around 10... |
52.24 |
1.0031 |
-0.0327 |
304 |
1 |
52.24 |
2012-10-05 |
| 97. |
Two years ago this property cost one million pounds. Today, ... |
52.19 |
0.9157 |
0.0218 |
350 |
1 |
52.19 |
2012-10-20 |
| 98. |
When I was a kid, you never saw radicchio in the produce sec... |
52.19 |
0.9790 |
-0.0050 |
311 |
1 |
52.19 |
2012-10-20 |
| 99. |
I believe in love, and I know that you do too. And I believe... |
52.18 |
1.0384 |
-0.1078 |
183 |
1 |
52.18 |
2013-04-11 |
| 100. |
Yeah, you just take Soupy-Sales to prom 'cause I can think o... |
51.99 |
0.9339 |
-0.0022 |
310 |
1 |
51.99 |
2012-10-05 |
| 101. |
Everything we hold dear likewise resolves into its original ... |
51.83 |
1.0177 |
-0.0558 |
392 |
1 |
51.83 |
2012-10-05 |
| 102. |
The Earth is a world, the world is a ball, a ball in a game ... |
51.76 |
1.0788 |
-0.1545 |
171 |
1 |
51.76 |
2012-10-05 |
| 103. |
All Ninja are men of peace, and must always remain so or los... |
51.69 |
0.9583 |
0.0085 |
341 |
1 |
51.69 |
2012-10-05 |
| 104. |
As the netted bag says, this potato was grown in Idaho, that... |
51.54 |
0.9371 |
0.0251 |
318 |
1 |
51.54 |
2012-10-05 |
| 105. |
Comfortable, Mullet? It seems sadly ironic that it's that ti... |
51.23 |
1.0201 |
-0.1050 |
172 |
1 |
51.23 |
2012-10-05 |
| 106. |
Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? Caught in a lan... |
50.71 |
0.9429 |
-0.0340 |
287 |
1 |
50.71 |
2012-10-05 |
| 107. |
Imagine this: Here we are, a plane full of grown human being... |
50.32 |
0.9631 |
-0.0150 |
345 |
1 |
50.32 |
2012-10-05 |
| 108. |
Two households, both alike in dignity (in fair Verona, where... |
50.23 |
0.8878 |
0.0124 |
346 |
1 |
50.23 |
2012-10-05 |
| 109. |
You could choke a dozen donkeys on that! And you're haggling... |
50.19 |
0.8602 |
0.0385 |
206 |
2 |
48.79 |
2012-10-20 |
| 110. |
O clear intelligence, force beyond all measure! Gentlemen, I... |
49.75 |
0.9976 |
-0.0840 |
174 |
1 |
49.75 |
2012-10-05 |
| 111. |
The chemistry of an element is determined by the manner in w... |
49.62 |
1.0023 |
-0.1153 |
211 |
1 |
49.62 |
2012-10-05 |
| 112. |
So I'm two inches away from her. Her luscious lips part. Jus... |
49.62 |
0.8553 |
0.0315 |
174 |
2 |
45.53 |
2012-10-20 |
| 113. |
One essential rule: make sure the joke is the last possible ... |
49.50 |
1.0483 |
-0.1635 |
227 |
1 |
49.50 |
2012-10-05 |
| 114. |
I've heard there was a secret chord that David played, and i... |
49.37 |
0.9912 |
-0.0772 |
237 |
1 |
49.37 |
2012-10-05 |
| 115. |
Ultimately, this is not about solving your problems. It's ab... |
49.31 |
1.0604 |
-0.1440 |
260 |
1 |
49.31 |
2012-10-05 |
| 116. |
Many wines have more than 14 percent alcohol because the win... |
48.43 |
0.9739 |
-0.0744 |
412 |
1 |
48.43 |
2012-10-05 |
| 117. |
Under the headline "Wonderful Typing," the New York Times re... |
48.38 |
0.7876 |
0.0817 |
316 |
1 |
48.38 |
2013-04-11 |
| 118. |
King, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiti... |
47.78 |
0.8961 |
-0.0409 |
189 |
1 |
47.78 |
2012-10-05 |
| 119. |
Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bu... |
47.76 |
0.9148 |
-0.0584 |
317 |
2 |
46.35 |
2012-10-05 |
| 120. |
It's a sunny, woodsy day in Lumberton, so get those chainsaw... |
47.67 |
0.9045 |
-0.0509 |
235 |
1 |
47.67 |
2012-10-05 |
| 121. |
Webster defines intelligence as, "the ability to apprehend i... |
47.57 |
0.8670 |
-0.0133 |
318 |
1 |
47.57 |
2012-10-05 |
| 122. |
Mac knew the score even if Aunt Ella didn't. Shot through th... |
46.95 |
0.9905 |
-0.1210 |
337 |
1 |
46.95 |
2012-10-05 |
| 123. |
You needn't take it any further, sir. You've proved to me th... |
46.87 |
0.9168 |
-0.0778 |
240 |
1 |
46.87 |
2012-10-05 |
| 124. |
Anyway, like I was saying, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. Y... |
45.56 |
0.8105 |
0.0034 |
204 |
1 |
45.56 |
2012-10-05 |
| 125. |
The National Rifle Association says that, "Guns don't kill p... |
44.42 |
0.8770 |
-0.0807 |
300 |
1 |
44.42 |
2012-10-05 |
| 126. |
I did my best, it wasn't much. I couldn't feel, so I tried t... |
41.43 |
0.9871 |
-0.2235 |
227 |
1 |
41.43 |
2012-10-05 |